I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

We're seeing a cultural shift that puts at the helm of our information publication systems people like Bari Weiss who have little insight and less intellectual integrity. It's no wonder that other life forms — if they exist — are not about to make contact. Our species isn't mature enough yet.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly. It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.

Frank Zappa said this in 1989.

Shout out to the American Presidents who didn't... (checks notes)... hate Americans.

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence. Fact checking is not going to do shit. Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit. We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

This administration's gleeful enactment of their cruel policies against asylum seekers shows me that something is deeply broken in these people. I don't know who can fix that.

"When they go low, I take it to hell, where the lava's at" — Cardi B.

"These are dangerous days To say what you feel is to dig your own grave Remember what I told you: If you were of the world they would love you" —Sinéad O’Connor, "Black Boys on Mopeds"

Doing some historical research for a project and while it's an obvious point that we all "know" in some sense, it's bracing and shocking to be reminded of just how violent a place America has been throughout its history.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Man is really on the good shit. He woke up and was like “these tunnels are unconstitutional under the 14th amendment because they’re black”

Quick question: how many federal jobs will he eliminate *without* a shutdown?

As long as the far right shapes public opinion, and mainstream parties follow public opinion, the far right dominates politics, whether in government or not.

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Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

I don't know that the US has ever had an administration so full of people gleefully intent on raising the quotient of misery in the world.

accurate

Some of us do.

A long time heroin addict and steroid user gave a press conference with a long time suspected adderall user to warn people about the ”dangerous effects” of Tylenol. Read that again 😭😩 Anyhoo…l think I might be looking forward to the rapture.

I just cannot muster the wherewithal to care about why you left your billion dollar brand.

I little loveliness in this despair, an acoustic version of "One in a Million": www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2KS...

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

It just keeps getting worse.

"Urging Jimmy to not only 'issue a direct apology to the Kirk family,' but also to 'make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA.'" is just barefaced bullying. Do NOT give into bullies. They'll just continue to shake you down until you are broken in two.

Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Sheesh. Even Ted Cruz gets that the FCC's bullying of Kimmel is deeply wrong: www.politico.com/live-updates...

When this all passes -and it will, someday- remember where companies like Disney, Paramount, Apple, etc. stood while it was happening. They don’t get to come back around later and say, “Hey, it was a crazy time, but we got some new gay characters who appear on screen for five seconds!”

So just to be clear, we all haven't forgotten that the current President whipped up a mob and tried to have them murder his political enemies at the Capitol, right?

You are literally, constitutionally and biblically allowed to do this.

Sinclair is demanding that Kimmel apologize to the family (?) and also "make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA" Are you fucking kidding me? It's not enough they got him fired, they want him to grovel and send money to these anti-free speech grifters?

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

What is wrong with Nancy Mace? Seriously, what happened to her?

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

The condition in which you leave a public restroom tells me more about your politics than your social media posts.

The reason for the anger at posting Kirk’s words is simply that we are entering a fascistic world where the truth is dangerous and lies become facts. It is literally how fascism sustains itself. Turning bigots into martyrs and innocent people into criminals. And that’s why saying the truth matters.

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

occupydemocrats This has to be said today: Charlie Kirk is no more important than the hundreds of children shot and killed at school. Guns are the problem.

I’m curious. If an outspoken atheist was to set up tables outside churches on Sunday and on campuses of Christian colleges with a sign that said “God doesn’t exist, prove me wrong,” would that person be hailed as a figure who was trying to engage in good faith debate and heal our divisions?

Saw this in a bar recently

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Now that the shooter looks like he's not a leftist, it's going to be a lot easier to talk about who Charlie Kirk actually was. And he was an opponent of free speech and a racist. It's not condoning murder to state the obvious. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

This is ridiculous. Journalists can’t ask whether policies are misguided? “A.G. Gancarski, a political reporter in Florida, was suspended after he texted a Republican congressman to ask whether the shooting changed his perspective on campus carry laws.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...